11. The full and effective participation and inclusion of mine survivors, and the families of those killed or injured, in the social, cultural, economic and political life of their communities is the ultimate aim and principal focus of the States Parties’ victim assistance efforts. The pursuit of this aim calls for a process with specific objectives for all aspects of victim assistance that is integrated into broader frameworks, such as disability, development and human rights, to ensure that high standards are met, that services are available and accessible, and that rights are guaranteed.

 
12. To enhance victim assistance efforts, States Parties, particularly those accountable to and responsible for the well-being of significant numbers of landmine victims, will do their utmost to:

Action 21: Ensure that those injured by landmines become survivors, including through strengthening emergency medical capabilities, particularly in rural and in remote areas.

Action 22: Develop, if they have not yet done so, a comprehensive national plan of action that addresses all aspects of victim assistance with objectives that are specific, measureable, achievable, realistic, and time bound, ensuring that such a plan takes into account broader national policies, plans and legal frameworks that promote and guarantee the rights of landmine victims in accordance with the highest international standards, and thereafter implement, monitor and evaluate the implementation of such a plan.

Action 23: Establish, if they have not yet done so, an inter-agency coordination mechanism for the development, implementation, and monitoring of appropriate national policies, plans and legal frameworks, involving the full and active participation of landmine survivors and other relevant stakeholders, and ensuring that the entity is assigned primary responsibility for overseeing this coordination and has the authority and resources to carry out its task.

Action 24: Enhance the collection of appropriate data to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate the implementation of relevant national policies, plans and legal frameworks, and link such data with national injury surveillance and other relevant data collection systems.

Action 25: Integrate victim assistance into development and poverty reduction strategies, ensuring that appropriate services are available to facilitate the full and active participation of landmine victims on an equal basis with others.

Action 26: Ensure that capacity building and training plans are developed and implemented to promote high quality standards and availability of age-appropriate and gender-sensitive services in all components of victim assistance, and enhance the capacity of both women and men and national institutions charged with implementing national policies, plans and legal frameworks, including through the provision of adequate resources.

Action 27: Increase accessibility of both female and male landmine victims to quality services and to overcome physical, social, cultural, economic and political barriers, with a particular focus on rural and remote areas.

Action 28:  Ensure the continued involvement and effective contribution in all relevant Convention-related activities by health, rehabilitation, social services, employment, gender and disability rights experts and landmine survivors, inter alia by encouraging the inclusion of such individuals on their delegations, particularly on the part of those State Parties responsible for the greatest number of landmine victims and relevant organizations.

Action 29:  Enhance monitoring on progress in the achievement of victim assistance goals in the 2010-2014 period by affording relevant States Parties the opportunity to report to all States Parties on the status of their victim assistance efforts, including resources allocated to implementation and challenges in achieving their objectives, to promote transparency and accountability, and encouraging States Parties in a position to do so to also report on how they are responding to such challenges.